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by
beek
Wed Aug 16 2000 at 3:54:40
configure
your
pc
to
boot
multiple
operating systems
in five simple steps:
Set up multiple
partitions
on your
hard drive
use your favorite
partitioning
utility (usually
fdisk
, i prefer
DriveSetup
) and
be sure what you're doing
because moving partition borders usually renders your data
inaccessible
. Most tools warn you before they do something like this, though.
If you want to run
some flavor of Windows
, install it to the first partition
and make sure that one's marked '
active
'. Most other
operating systems
do fine on any partition
(i think
NT
and
2000
do so, too, at least i had
98
and
NT
running dual-booting some time and can't remember too much trouble) (addition: actually, windows seems to accept any partition as long as it's the first active partition found.
grub
can modify the "active"/boot flag at boot time, so you could even run multiple instances of win95 from one disk (for whatever reason you'd want to do that...))
Install the other
operating system
(s).
My favourite is
BeOS
and 'of course' i've got some kind of
Linux
, but you're free to choose whatever you like (that is, whatever will run on your PC). Multiple installations of the same
OS
will usually do fine. Two flavours of
Windows
are also common.
Install a boot manager
like
grub
,
lilo
, or
bootman
. note that installing
Windows
usually overwrites the
master boot record
and you will have to install it again. It can be very useful to have a
boot disk
or
bootable
cd-rom
from which you can install this boot manager, especially when you have to re-install
windoze
Enjoy
choice
!
multi boot
LILO
My generic "So you want to learn Linux..." speech
DriveSetup
Grub
BeOS
boot loader
It's cool to hate Microsoft
schizophrenic
Wicca is like Linux
The Ten Seconds of Non-existence
partitioning
Partition Magic
Linux for the common person
How to make your Linux box dual boot using Grub
November 8, 2001
FIPS PUBS
fdisk
bootstrap
choice
Debian
VirtualBox
dual-boot